How Do You Handle Alerts in Selenium?

Dapheny Murphy | July 25, 2022

How Do You Handle Alerts in Selenium?

Alerts are popup boxes that appear on the browser screen to provide information. It notifies errors, warnings, or seeks permission to perform a specific task. Selenium provides some default methods to handle alerts, as mentioned below:

  1. dismiss() // Clicks on ‘Cancel’ button
  2. accept() // Clicks on ‘Ok’ button
  3. getText() // Captures PopUp data
  4. sendKeys(String text) // Provides data in PopUp

Additionally, sometimes there are alert windows seeking permissions like microphone/camera access. These alerts can be handled by using your browser preferences. A sample Code snippet to handle such alerts is:

options.add_argument("--use-fake-ui-for-media-stream")
options.add_argument("--use-fake-device-for-media-stream")

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